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BIO:

I am currently a Professor at Warwick Medical School and the Director of Warwick Bio-Medical Sciences. Research in my lab focusses on the organisation of microtubules and intracellular transport with a recent focus on the regulation of motor activity and coordination of opposite polarity motors.

I trained in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and then joined the lab of Gero Steinberg at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and later at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, where I studied the microtubule cytoskeleton in the fungus Ustilago maydis, concentrating on the dynamic re-organisation of microtubules during the cell cycle and on intracellular transport by the molecular motors dynein and kinesin, which carry traffic along microtubules. I then moved as a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Emmy Noether programme of the German Science Foundation to the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology in Edinburgh, where I worked with Andreas Merdes on the microtubule cytoskeleton in differentiating muscle cells. In 2007, I started my own lab at the Marie Curie Research Institute (MCRI) in Oxted, Surrey. When the MCRI closed in 2010, I moved with my colleagues Rob Cross and Andrew McAinsh to the University of Warwick to found the Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology. I won a Lister Institute Research Prize in 2013 and received Wellcome Investigator Awards in Science in 2016 and 2022.